Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is org.hibernate.MappingException: entity class not found

Exception sending context initialized event to listener instance of class org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'sessionFactory' defined in ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is org.hibernate.MappingException: entity class not found: yourclass
...


reason: yourclass.java has a map file yourclass.hbm.xml.

<hibernate-mapping>
<class name="yourclass" table="......
.......
</hibernate-mapping>


need to be changed full path
<class name="com.xun.beans.yourclass" ......> 


That's it.